a = b = 1 just syntactic sugar?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Jun 10 12:42:18 EDT 2003


"Nielson Family" <junk at geekabytes.net> wrote in message
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> Terry,
>
> I'm flattered you think my hack is  'clever' ;)
>
> I am curious... don't you think that using the name that an
anonymous
> function is assigned to within the anonymous function breaks the
concept
> of an anonymous function?

Sure, but to me, that's just a side-effect of being an expression.

TJR






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